Tag Archive: cancer

“WTF? for Lung Cancer” Campaign Featured in the Huffington Post

I mentioned a surprise was in store. Well, it hit yesterday – a feature in the Huffington Post titled, “The Inspiring Jennifer Windrum and the W.T.F. Campaign” by 2morrowKnight and Ann Tran. Typing out the title made me uncomfortable and I was in tears most of the day. Good tears. Awesomely good. I couldn’t be…

Do You Know Where Your Charitable Donations Are Going? YOU Need to Ask!

Never assume anything. My rant on lack of information from the American Cancer Society and Stand Up 2 Cancer.

March Madness…of the Cancer Kind

This is my mom, Leslie Lehrman, in 2001. Hanging out in Hawaii with her husband, Bob, and his family. Back then, the thing my mom used to complain about was gaining weight. Oh, and that perpetual problem I recently discovered goes back to her elementary days: Her HAIR! She NEVER likes her hair. Never. While…

Christmas Family (Cancer) Feud – Thanks for Nothing Richard Dawson

Dawson: “Welcome to Family Feud. Let’s start with the Windrum family over here.” “Ok, first question: What do you get when you mix the holidays with cancer?” Windrum Family: “Let’s go with…a nightmare?” Dawson: (Chuckle). “Well, let’s see. Survey says: (DING!) One chaotic Christmas cocktail, and not of the alcoholic kind. That would definitely be…

Lung Cancer “Victim” or “Survivor” – or Both?

What do you consider yourself: A lung cancer “victim?” A lung cancer “survivor?” Or both? (Or neither?) I know a lot of times, my mom, feels like a helpless victim. I believe a lot of this stems from the fact that she has lung cancer – the #1 cancer killer and the least funded. On…